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(...) The difference being that there was a request for the lgbt group. (...) They are only on the front page because ENOUGH LUGNET MEMBERS THOUGHT THEY WERE IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO HIGHLIGHT THEM!! It is not because the group is there. The whole (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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(...) And I completely concur--there were 8 new NG's, and yet one is getting all the attention. If people weren't pointing at it, or highlighting it, or yapping about it, nobody would have noticed it. There is no elephant in the livingroom--all this (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) [SNIP] (...) That right Dave, only one group us getting attention - nobody asked people their opinions or requested the other seven. 'Leave it alone/Life goes on/get over it.' - you libs (ie your West Wing marathon clues me in on (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Well, if Todd didn't implement the group, and there was an uproar about that, I'd chime in and say *exactly* the same thing. But you don't know that about me.(1) It's Todd's backyard--if he says that the group gets added, the decision is made (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) LUGNET currently has 2,500+ members. I've seen many times where a post has gotten on the LUGNET front page with just a single person spotlighting it. One person spotlights a gay post, and everyone who comes to LUGNET for the first time could (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) Like you really have to point out to anyone you're a socialist. I figured that out already from the way you're telling everyone to sit down, shut up and live with it. And apparently you don't read my posts to thoroughly - my last (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Yes, he does. I was simply pointing out that the posts don't get there by themselves. BTW I think only posts in .announce can get there with only 1 spotlight, anything else seems to require 3 or 4. I have, in fact, noted in the past that (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Something can make it to the front page with only one spotlight? Sure: as long as those other 2,499+ members aren't spotlighting something else. If you don't want to see something on the front page, then spotlight something else! Spotlight (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I can't see the direct link between socialism and 'telling everyone to sit down, shut up and live', sureley thats just a measure of intolerance, not how left or right you are. ( I will admit that those at the far right and the far left tend to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hello! (...) That's as logical as to conclude from one left-handed murderer that all lefties are murderers. And who would take the opinion seriously of somebody who comes to that conclusion? Bye Jojo (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I didn't say it would be logical for newcomers to assume that; just that they might (notice the word "could"). (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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